Team Development

Coaching Dept. Heads and team leads along with team building activities for increasing your management team’s knowledge and skills to lead, communicate effectively, work through differences, and increase trust.

Objectives

Secondary benefits

An energizing ‘esprit-de-corps,’ feelings of pride, motivation, and allegiance for your company among team members.

Why high-performance teams?

When everyone works together in work units to meet organizational goals, company resources are used most effectively.

Benefits of Management Team Development

Clearly defined strategy, objectives, and goals

Clarity and understanding of management roles, interdependencies, and the role of leadership

Assessed & identified management team and individual strengths and areas for development

A concrete, realistic plan to address current challenges and lay the foundation for long-term success

Enhanced management team and individual communication skills and application

Greater understanding of the impact management team members have on each other

Creation of a culture of trust and collaboration (which is a key factor in determining company success)

Improved commitment to the team, company, and the people of the organization

Commitment of management team by engaging all team members in a structured and inclusive process

Enhanced creativity of management team, including ability to generate new ideas and develop solutions to problems

Clarity and understanding of how management can best direct and support others in the company

An objective, third-party assessment of the key issues affecting individual and team performance

Management team conflicts addressed and resolved

Overall improvement in:

morale

processes and procedures

organizational productivity

ability to problem solve

ability to address sensitive issues constructively

level of responsibility, reliability and accountability

Our Central Process

We’ll get to know your current management team dynamics, then identify organizational and team objectives as well as the unique contribution and goals of individual team members. Based on what we find, we will design support to meet the needs of both your team and individual team members, within the context of your company’s strategy and specific work environment.

Team Development Components

Introduction: We will conduct an initial session with your team for introductions, presenting purpose and objectives, and to get everyone on board

Assessment: We will conduct interviews (with the secondary benefit of building trust with us as a credible 3rd party) and survey for qualitative data

Key Themes, Examples and Recommendations: We will develop and present key themes we’ve identified along with supportive examples as well as our recommendations for improvement.

Engagement: We will engage your management team members in the key themes, examples and recommendations we’ve identified and enlist them in support of the changes required.

Improvement Design: We will guide your team through our customized and collaborative organizational, team and individual design and process

Implementation: We will deliver, coach, facilitate and manage the process with your team members

Follow-up: We will guide progress on the improvement process as well as assess changes made to ensure your objectives and commitments are accomplished and improvements are sustained